Quotes About Generational divide

Apple has struck a cultural nerve, especially with Generation X and Gen Y, while Windows and PC are viewed in essence as 'My parents' computer'.

It's a different story because guess what, the kid is only 28 years old, 28. He's not his dad, not his grandpa. He's 28 years old.

There's a whole generation out there who don't know that I was a pop singer in the early days.

I don't know what an email is.

It's very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can't imagine.

I cut him off at once, with that particular form of corrosive savagery that grown sons reserve for their bumbling fathers.

We come from long lines of people destined never to meet.

The old continue to be old-fashioned, though their youths were modern. We grow backward, aging into our father's opinions and even into those of our grandfathers.

His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son.

A degree from UC Berkeley will never change the fact that I cannot understand my grandfather when he asks for more coffee." —Esther G. Belin (Navajo) from In the Cycle of the Whirl. L

People are just up tight because the kids are having fun and they didn't have the same freedom.

If Tumblr and Twitter were school subjects, my parents would love me.

Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.

My parents never understood me; they were Japanese.

We also cling to the past as a way of contrasting it with the present—usually to highlight something positive about ourselves at the expense of someone else. Do you ever find yourself beginning a long self-serving story with the phrase, "When I was your age . . ."?

You got kids who act loony and take drugs left and right. They pretend they hate their parents who gave them everything in the world. These kids grow up, and their kids stick earrings in private places and get tattoos all over their bodies and don't know whether to act like boys or girls. They think they love everybody. The truth is they love nobody, including themselves.

World War I was the final straw. Youth turned on their elders for making a hash of the world. Older men's values had produced a cataclysm, and young men had paid with their lives. "The older generation has certainly pretty well ruined this world before passing it on to us," wrote a young man in the Atlantic Monthly of September 1920, expressing the prevailing sentiment. How could the younger generation, the idea went, possibly do any worse?

We come from long lines of people destined never to meet.

A man regards his son as his enemy.

Nothing makes a man feel older than a young woman.

The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.